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Selections for Gowran – May 20th 2026
5.10: SALACIOUS – EW – (ANDY SLATTERY/JOSH HALLEY) 5.45: FLEUR DE PROVENCE (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.20: ROLLTIGHT – EW – (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.50: JUST ANOTHER EAGLE – EW – (ROBYN DONAGHUE-LEAHY (7)/PAT FLYNN) 7.20: SPARAN NUA (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JIM BOLGER) 7.50: CELTIC DRUID – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 8.20: JURALITY (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/PAUL…
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Every team has their own prototype
The above might look like the most blatant case of stating the obvious mankind or womankind has ever encountered, but that doesn’t reduce its credence. Think about it – Micko’s Kerry were the first to patent football by handpass. Then, Jim McGuinness morphed that into death by handpass but then, in fairness, the man from…
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Selections for Cork – May 19th 2026
4.40: BIT OF A BUZZ (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.12: BAD BOY RIZZ (SHANE FOLEY/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 5.42: KILMOOD SUSAN – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/MICK MULVANY) 6.12: HANNEY BAY (LIAM KENIRY/EVANNA MCCUTCHEON) 6.42: SHESHARMA – EW – (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.12: SMOKE THEM OUT – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 7.42: BENAKI – EW – (GAVIN…
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Selections for Roscommon – May 18th 2026
4.50: STAR OF BEAUTY (BILLY LEE/KEN CONDON) 5.20: ARIZONA RAIDER (WESLEY JOYCE (3)/MICK MULVANY) 5.50: ROYAL IMPACT (JACK KEARNEY (3)/JACK DAVISON) 6.20: KARRYGRANT (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 6.50: KILCREA ROCK (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.20: SEA OF DUBKA – EW – (BILLY LEE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.50: OBSCENITY (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: EDGE OF DARKNESS –…
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Top lot trump seconds in game of two halves
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-08 Ballinlough…2-14 Dunboyne’s second string were unable to build on a promising first half against Ballinlough’s top lot on Sunday morning. Though the sides were knotted together at 1-05 apiece at the change of ends, but, it was the north county outfit who very much had the better of matters in the second…
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Flying first half sets visitors on the road to victory
St Peter’s, Dunboyne…2-18 Na Fianna…0-10 First half goals from Fergal Watters and Jason Gleeson set Dunboyne on their way in Baconstown as they led by 2-10 to 0-04 at the break on Saturday evening before going on to record their second victory of the season in the race for the Mooney Cup. The eventual victors…
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Selections for Naas – May 17th 2026
1.56: SHAFTSBURY AVENUE (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.26: FAR FROM DANDY (COLIN KEANE/STEPHEN THORNE) 2.56: STAR PROSPECT (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.26: SOLANA BEACH (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/FOZZY STACK) 3.56: KING CUAN – EW – (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 4.26: VICTORIOUS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.56: CHARLES DARWIN (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 5.26: LADY IMAN – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS)
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Harvest in the hills all in vain
MEATH…2-18 DONEGAL…1-16 No matter what competition structure a governing body in any code put together, there will always be somebody left feeling hard done by if they end up on the wrong side of a tight margin call. Whether their umbrage is justified or not. Think of Thierry Henry’s disgraceful handball against Ireland that Stevie…
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Selections for Wexford – May 16th 2026
1.30: SHING SHANG LILY – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/CIAN COLLINS) 2.05: SIMPLE THINGS – EW – (MICHAEL KENNEALLY (5)/PHLLIP DEMPSEY) 2.40: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON/J. E. & T. KIELY) 3.15: FEDNEY’S PARK (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.50: BEGGAR’S ROCK – EW – (KEVIN SEXTON/IAN DONOGHUE) 4.25: SUPERSUNDAE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.55: TELL…
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Selections for Navan – May 16th 2026
1.12: BARROW BOY (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.47: WEGOTTOGETHER – EW – (JACK KEARNEY/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.20: BIG NEGOTIATOR (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 2.55: REPOSADO (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROBSON DE AGUIAR) 3.32: ECLAIRAGE – EW – (TERRY CASEY (7)/DANNY MURPHY) 4.07: LIMESTONE (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.42: MADBADANDDANGEROUS (BEN COEN/NOEL MEADE) 5.15: REYNIR (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH)
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